Family name too long
Audit code: naming-family-long
Definition
Family name exceeds 31 characters. Some legacy app menus truncate or refuse to list overly long family names — keeping the name compact avoids ugly fallback behavior in Word, Photoshop, and older Office builds.
How Patens surfaces this
The Patens audit module checks for naming-family-long across five teaching surfaces: the edit-panel inline issue list, the
project-wide audit page, the release pre-flight check, the family hub,
and the home-page project tile. Every surface shows the same plain-English
explanation and links back to this page. This rule is detection-only — there's no automatic fix because the
correction is design-dependent (it requires a judgment call about the
glyph's intended shape or the font's intended behaviour). The audit
message links to the specific glyph or field that needs attention.
Run this check yourself
Patens runs every audit rule live as you draw — including this one.
The editor (in private alpha) shows naming-family-long firing on real
glyphs, or check your own work from the CLI:
npx patens audit your-project.font.json